Oksana and Maxim teamed up in May 2002 under the guidance of their coach Alexei Gorshkov and choreographer Sergei Petukhov. During their first season together the couple won all the junior competitions they entered, including the ISU Grand Prix Final and the World Championships. After the 2006 Olympics their career got a new impulse and they became by right part of the world's elite of ice dancing. The 2007-2008 season was full of both pleasant and bitter surprises, marked by victories at all major events like the Grand Prix Final and the European Championships, as well as by many injuries. In fact Maxim had to go through major knee surgeries three times during the season. Golden medals were won with pain, injections and clenched teeth. Due to injury, the couple was forced to withdraw from the World Championships, which Maxim had to watch on TV from a hospital ward.

During low season, the guys made the very hard and painful decision to replace their training team, and in June 2008, they moved to Aston, USA, to train under coaching team Natalia Linichuk and Gennadi Karponossov.

The victory at the World championships was a worthy reward for the hard times and sacrifices involved in the move. Nevertheless, the beginning of the 2009-10 Olympic season was not an easy one. Maxim spent four months in a Munich clinic to take care of his injured knee, but unfortunately the condition didn't seem to regress. The athletes were then forced to sit out the Grand Prix competitions, on top of having to disrupt their training later during the fall, because of Maxim's hospitalization. In spite of this all, with clenched teeth, they went on to face the most important competition of the season and of their entire career: the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver. On their way there, they became once more Russian National Champions, and won their second European Title. The Olympic competition kicked off in the best way, with Oksana and Maxim gaining the lead after the first segment, with a masterful execution of the compulsory dance: the Tango Romantica. Eventually, the injury and the lack of time for a full preparation took their toll, and prevented the skaters to maintain the lead throughout the whole competition. Nevertheless, they went on to earn a well deserved Bronze medal. Our congratulations to Oksana and Maxim on this greatest achievement!